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Environmental design professions, such as landscape architecture and urban design, ultimately make statements about how humans live in the world. To reflect more deeply on how we live and therefore how we design, this ar...

Studies carried out for sustainable and low carbon emission rural area design and planning are important in minimising the effects of climate change and protecting the ecology. Especially in rural areas, the choice of lo...

Habitat loss is one of the main factors reducing wildlife diversity and restricting its conservation. Habitat suitability models are important tools for wildlife management and conservation in order to evaluate the impac...

In extra-Andean Patagonia, wet meadows contrast with the prevailing arid steppes, and present a gradient of water availability from the periphery to the center. The objectives of this paper are to describe the spatial an...

In poorly known groups for which data are insufficient to develop biologically plausible model-based approaches to phylogeographical analyses, a ‘first hypotheses’ protocol is suggested as offering the best way to ge...

ABSTRACT Shade-tolerant forest species are among the most susceptible to habitat loss in agricultural mosaics, where a variety of croplands is connected to forests at different levels of anthropogenic disturbance. We aim...

Present land-use forms, such as former coal mines turned into lakes, solar parks, wind farms, mixed/test forests and biological (organic) agriculture, cater more for ‘human wellbeing’ or building sustainable economie...

O entendimento das mudanças em paisagens amazônicas depende de documentação das alterações na cobertura da terra. Este artigo parte de resultados do Experimento de Larga Escala de Biosfera-Atmosfera na Amazônia (L...

ABSTRACT Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that contribute to ecosystem services glo...

Blended and flipped classroom pedagogical models are recognised as having the potential to deepen and enrich student learning while also being a more engaging learning experience (Partridge, Ponting, & McCay, 2011). E-le...

Richness and diversity of parasites depend on a set of interrelated factors related to the characteristics of the host, the environment and the parasites itself. In the City of Buenos Aires, rodent communities vary accor...

Conservar los valores patrimoniales y paisajísticos en la centralidad histórica contempla numerosos desafíos, desde su baja densidad poblacional, mercantilización, hasta la deficiencia en la aplicación de normativas...

ABSTRACT Habitat loss and fragmentation caused by deforestation are important anthropogenic drivers of changes in biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest, and has reached its highest rate in recent decades. However, the ma...

En este trabajo se sintetizan y discuten los avances recientes en el estudio de los paisajes culturales del formativo tardío en la Quebrada del Toro (Salta, Argentina). La información presentada procede de contextos fu...

Los anfibios son representantes típicos y conspicuos de los ecosistemas de humedales neotropicales, tales como los Esteros del Iberá, su preservación está en íntima relación con la conservación de la biodiversidad...

The Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains are a unique European region. In the Carpathians there are more than half of the species of the flora and fauna of Ukraine. Rapid rivers, shoeless meadows, silvery waterfalls, and the i...

Andes virus (AND) is a hantavirus hosted by the sigmodontine rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus in southern Argentina, where it is responsible for most cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Our study provides data...

In this paper the potencial importance of the río Negro valley on the peopling of Patagonia is discussed. Flowing along the Pampean-Patagonian border, the Río Negro drains Andean meltwaters across the Southern Cone ...

Este artículo propone estudiar el Catalogo de las Naves desde una perspectiva nueva, diferente a la forma tradicional a como éste ha sido abordado por los arqueólogos. La geografía cultural trata sobre los temas de i...

Aun reconociendo su situación mediadora entre cultura y naturaleza, tanto las disciplinas estéticas como las ciencias sociales suelen reducir el paisaje, o bien a una mera construcción de la mirada que lo abarca o bie...

Fil: Torre, Claudia. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Graciela Silvestri interroga al paisaje estético, que es a la vez moral, científico, técnico, social y político. A través de una sofisticada bibliografía ...

The Guañacos fold and thrust belt, located between 37° and 38° S in the eastern foothills of the Main Andes is characterized at its eastern border by a series of NE, NW and N- neotectonic faults associated with the An...

"En esta tesis analizamos y comparamos cuatro metodologías de impacto paisajístico y visual y las aplicamos a un caso de estudio que consiste en una línea de alta tensión de 132 kV con distintas alternativas de traza...

El presente trabajo de Tesis Doctoral constituye el resultado de un proceso de investigación llevado a cabo en la región centro-oeste de la provincia de Catamarca, República Argentina. El objetivo general consistió e...